A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Storm" by Kate Chopin deal with the loss of innocence, loneliness, and sexual desires. The narrators are a part of different times and different societies, which shows how the language and actions differ in the characters. Through the author's use of dialogue, the reader discovers each situation that the characters in stories are presented with. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway is depicted as using old age and depression to get its views across. "The Storm" by Kate Chopin is much more expressive in its imagery of passion relating it to a storm. The main character in "A Clean, Well- Lighted Place", written by Ernest Hemingway is the old man. The old man, who remains nameless throughout the short story, comes to the cafe and stays late into the night, and sits "In the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light"(92). The old man is deaf and finds comfort in the "difference" he feels inside the quiet cafe. The old man struggles with old age and the feeling of nothingness, which is representative of the darkness outside of the cafe. The well-lit cafe represents order and cleanliness. The old man is around eighty years old, and d
Calixta's affair with Alcee is described almost as if it were done in innocence. It is described to be her "birthright" and everything around them is described as being white, the way innocence is described as being white. "Her throat was white", her breasts were whiter, "the couch she lay upon" was white, and there was a white flame (703).
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Approximate Word count = 995
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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